Deploying “Napa” apps to Office 365 from a Windows 8 VM in Parallels (troubleshooting)

Problem

Be careful if you are sharing folders with your Windows 8 VM in Parallels 7 on OS X. Shared folders are the standard behavior for new machines.

In Visual Studio 2012 this will lead to the following default settings for new projects.
Notice: The folder names begin with \\psf\home\

Which will lead to a project folder beginning with \\psf\home\, when you open your project from “Napa”.

When you try to deploy your solution, you will get the following error message:

Error occurred in deployment step 'Install App for SharePoint': packagePath

Solution

Via “Tools > Options… > Projects and Solutions” change your standard settings for new projects to a local path.

Now if you close visual studio an re-open the project from the “Napa” website, you will able to build and successfully deploy:

Now, have fun creating “Napa” apps for Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013!